{"id":30230,"date":"2021-02-26T10:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=30230"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T15:49:15","slug":"postal-workers-in-chicago-surprised-to-learn-of-dismissal-due-to-lack-of-work-amid-continued-mail-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2021\/02\/26\/postal-workers-in-chicago-surprised-to-learn-of-dismissal-due-to-lack-of-work-amid-continued-mail-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Workers In Chicago Surprised To Learn Of Dismissal Due To \u2018Lack Of Work\u2019 Amid Continued Mail Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>CHICAGO (CBS) \u2014\u00a0<\/strong>As calls for changes at the top continue and delivery delays add up, CBS 2 continues to investigate what is behind\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsloc.al\/2Ma9sTH\" rel=\"nofollow\">massive failures inside of the United States Postal Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">When the holidays end, so too does employment for hundreds of postal workers brought on seasonally, but in a year when the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsloc.al\/3avf6sU\" rel=\"nofollow\">delays have been unprecedented<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cbsloc.al\/3tPizde\" rel=\"nofollow\">need for manpower<\/a>\u00a0so great, some workers were surprised to learn their reason for dismissal was because of a \u201clack of work\u201d and they had been boxed out of open positions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Whether it\u2019s walking the route or working the sorting machines, bodies are fewer and delays are longer.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage is short-circuiting service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cSo for six weeks, I got no letter mail,\u201d said Debbi Roy Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Just this week the post office posted jobs for automotive techs, garage assistants and city carriers for various Chicago locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAnd I think all of our crafts are short of manpower,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">What is not being delivered: answers to questions about service delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere was no reason whatsoever that was given,\u201d said Roy Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Several hundred workers were recently terminated at a sorting facility at O\u2019Hare, where 500 career employees, 122 mail handler assistants<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0a<\/span>nd 200 \u201cpeak season\u201d additional assistants work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">That is until last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThey have been let go due to the post office being over our contractually mandated 24.5% allowance of MHA employees,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But many, like one who did not want to be identified because he would like to be rehired, said he wasn\u2019t seasonal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI was not a seasonal worker,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were lots of us that were not seasonal workers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The post office and union say they were, and a union rule blocks him from most open jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe\u2019re not allowed to move people into other peoples crafts,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">His termination paperwork cites Action Code 357 \u2014 lack of work. Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.cbslocal.com\/2021\/02\/26\/united-states-postal-service-chicago-lack-of-work-mail-delays\/\">CBS Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30231\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chicago-Dismissals-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chicago-Dismissals-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chicago-Dismissals-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Chicago-Dismissals.jpg 495w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (CBS) \u2014\u00a0As calls for changes at the top continue and delivery delays add up, CBS 2 continues to investigate what is behind\u00a0massive failures inside of the United States Postal Service. When the holidays end, so too does employment for hundreds of postal workers brought on seasonally, but in a year when the\u00a0delays have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30232,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30230\/revisions\/30232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}